Things that dont make sense

[WingedDragon]

There are moves if you think about it dont make any sense. For example if Dragon claw is used on a fairy type it doesnt affect them. If you have this big hand smacking you. How is it not effective? I mean if anyone gets slapped with a big hand. You gonna feel it.

So what doesnt make sense to you?

 

[Scarpine496]

On a similar note, physical moves like Bite what are classed as Dark type moves and are ineffective on those strong against Dark types.

 

[TheFattestSnorlax]

Breeding is weird. You can make some unusual combinations to breed, like Skitty + Wailord and Seviper + Zangoose. WTF.

 

[Sirfetch’d]

If you think Pokemon is logical, you should really think again. A lot of things don't make sense but I really like that about Pokemon in all honesty. For example, Vullaby can learn the move Fly but it's Pokedex entry specifically says that it cannot fly.

 

[Sun]

If you think Pokemon is logical, you should really think again. A lot of things don't make sense but I really like that about Pokemon in all honesty. For example, Vullaby can learn the move Fly but it's Pokedex entry specifically says that it cannot fly.

Must be drinking Red Bull when Mama Mandibuzz ain't looking.

Ahem. Vullaby at least have a pair of visible wings, how'd y'all like Duduo and Dodrio's invisible wings?

Only certain floating or some Flying-types are eligible for participate Sky Battles, yet any Pokémon can battle under the sea like Charmander. :v

 

[KorpiklaaniVodka]

Still fail to see why is Fairy resists Fighting and is super effective against it when it should be the other way around. Actually, I fail to see why does the Fairy-type even exist.

 

[Hikamaru]

Still fail to see why is Fairy resists Fighting and is super effective against it when it should be the other way around. Actually, I fail to see why does the Fairy-type even exist.

Apparently the Fairy-type's advantage over Fighting-type can stem to the fact magical powers overcome brute force. But I do admit, most people think the type matchups for Fairy are the most nonsensical unless if they look into the big picture. It's likely also due to most people thinking the type's mainly cute nature was based on fairies you see in movies and TV shows targeted towards kids, and not based on actual lore about fairies.

 

[KorpiklaaniVodka]

Apparently the Fairy-type's advantage over Fighting-type can stem to the fact magical powers overcome brute force. But I do admit, most people think the type matchups for Fairy are the most nonsensical unless if they look into the big picture. It's likely also due to most people thinking the type's mainly cute nature was based on fairies you see in movies and TV shows targeted towards kids, and not based on actual lore about fairies.

By this logic all ranged attacks should be super effective against fighting-types.

Screw fairies, they should have made Poison and Steel super effective against Dragon, and have Poison resist Dragon.

 

[Ashes to Ashes]

Why doesnt bonemerang work on flying types? Its a bone youre throwing, almost closer to rock than ground. Dragon claw being ignored completely is weird but its how the mechanics of the game work. Many common metals can be corroded by various acids and chemicals but Steel is immune to Poison. Everything is generalized and thats what keeps it simple.

 

[Scarpine496]

Why doesnt bonemerang work on flying types? Its a bone youre throwing, almost closer to rock than ground.

Not only that but bones can be thrown upwards which can hit flying types dead on. Also if flying types are on the ground then ground type attacks should hit.

Still fail to see why is Fairy resists Fighting and is super effective against it when it should be the other way around. Actually, I fail to see why does the Fairy-type even exist.

I also have a problem with Fairy type as I'm sure a lot of people do. I still don't get the whole immune against Dragons stuff either. I'm not going to compare it to fairy tales and dragons in that either because this is completely different. Also does that mean Arceus now has a Fairy plate now, which he didn't in Gen IV?

 

[bwburke94]

Why does Troll Freak still need to maintain the Gen II glitch of Nidorina/Nidoqueen being unable to breed, even with Ditto?

 

[LilyGardy]

Some of the Pokemon descriptions like Blastoise being the 'Shellfish' Pokemon when it is clearly a turtle but it would be strange if every Pokemon had a 'say what you see' name like Swanna being the 'White Bird' Pokemon.

NPC's always saying the same thing.

 

[LilBueno]

Steel not being effective against Dragons.
I read an article about Fairies being weak to Steel and Poison by comparing it to Captain Hook imprisoning Tinkerbell in a steel cage and poisoning her (did that happen in the movie? I can't remember, but that comparison helped me remember Fairy's type-effectiveness). I know that wasn't Gamefreak's rationale for the type-effectiveness, but I think of a sword slaying a dragon and it makes me think Dragons should be weak to Steel.

 

[ORegan]

Porygon is an AI which somehow manifests outside of a computer and can somehow breed with ditto to make another porygon via being hatched from an egg.

wait wut?

 

[DforDragoz]

You can't be paralyzed, poisoned, asleep, burnt, and frozen at the same time. Okay, maybe some aren't applicable together(like burnt and frozen), but you should at least be poisoned and sleeping, or burnt and paralyzed, or poisoned and paralyzed at the same time, right?

 

[Early]

Cubone. How does each one's mother die? And in the actual game itself, how is it that you can breed them without losing the parents, yet it's still born wearing the skull that supposedly belonged to its passed on mother?

Why does Bite have be learned - or even genetically inherited (egg move'd) - when it should be a common/natural skill in 'mons that have teeth? Special mention to Poochyena for being the "Bite Pokemon", but couldn't learn Bite until Gen VI despite what most of its PokeDex entries say about it.

 

[Scarpine496]

Entei/Raikou/Suicune being able to run away when it is asleep or frozen.

 

[LilBueno]

I defeat a Trainer, they give me money and go on with their day.
A Trainer defeats me, I wake up at the Pokemon Center.

 

[Aisu]

When you lose a battle to a wild Pokemon, "black out" and drop two hundred dollars. The fuck? Is that damn Tentacool gonna hop on land to buy a McChicken? And how do you "black out" and go the PokeCenter? Sleepwalking?

 

[GengyGengar]

You can fly on, surf on, break rocks with, climb waterfalls with, clear fog with, move huge boulders with, clear whirlpools with and illuminate huge caves with fainted Pokemon. Logic.